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...more than one breed has been destroyed for field purposes by specialized breeding aimed at conforming to the exacting-and too often substantially different-standards of the show ring. Cocker spaniels, for example, were once superior bird dogs; years of overbreeding have resulted in spaniels that cannot tell a pigeon from a pothole. Says American Kennel Club Field Representative Bob Bartel...
Then, the war. Captured by the Germans in 1940, Braudel chafed in a prisoner of war camp at Lübeck. He sustained himself by teaching other inmates (and occasionally playing pranks, like painting a pigeon's wings with the red. white and blue tricolor and then setting it loose, provoking a vain fusillade from German guards). He sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those...
Stewart hurled pigeon eggs for five frames before giving way to two relievers over the final four innings. The reason? Stewart will be on the mound come Friday when Columbia and its unblemished Eastern record travel to Cambridge in what should be a far truer indication of the strength of Loyal Park's crew than any of the contests thus...
...federal laws on crime, passed piecemeal by various Congresses, have never been systematically overhauled since the beginning of the Republic. Scattered through nearly every part of the 50-title U.S. code, they are sometimes laughable. For example, deflecting a Government carrier pigeon is a federal misdemeanor. They can also be unfair. Two men committing identical bank robberies can receive wildly differing sentences from different judges...
Railroad Turnbridge and Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street. Probably as abstruse as they sound. At the Harvard Epworth Church, Sunday...